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Next the young fan played The Darkside, a track built around Donald Byrd's Steppin' into Tomorrow. It starts with a grim, pulsing bass, followed by hard lyrics about urban life: "Come take a trip through the eye of a black man/ Looking out at life like he really doesn't give a damn...
...When I was a freshman coming back here from winter break I gashed my hand open struggling with three pieces of luggage and a bass guitar on the subway," Mann said. "This is a service that the students want, a service that the students need...
...album reveals several striking things about Prince's career. Musically, many of the earlier songs reveal that Prince could not escape the banal rhythms of early-eighties pop. On the one hand there is the almost Van Halenesque synth and sequencer bass of "Dirty Mind" (and the groove on "1999" sounds suspiciously like "Jump".) The other early sound is the still-lingering presence of disco. Prince often verged on club music, but his best work owes more to other commercial styles like hip hop, funk and even rock. And just when the sound of drum machines and synthesizers starts...
This is Coleman--perhaps the greatest plastic alto saxophonist of all times--at his anguished, melodic best. Most of the tracks on this set feature Don Cherry on pocket-trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums--musicians who all were serious innovators in their own rights. It was this quartet that established what came to be known as free jazz, and it was these recordings that did the establishing...
Mingus's jaunty, powerful bass lines on classics such as "Haitian Fight Song," "Better Get Hit In Your Soul" and "Ecclusiastics" are truly inspiring in their power and realization...